Title Prof. First Name Ujjwal Last Name Jana
Designation Professor
Department Department of English
Email ujana@english.du.ac.in
Webpage
Phone.no 01122222222
Employement Info
Employee Type Nature Of Employment
Teaching Permanent
Educational Qualifications
Degree/Certification Name Institution Year of Completion
Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur 2008
PG Calcutta University 1999
UG Calcutta University 1997
Fellowship Details
Name Of Fellowship Awarding Body Fellowship Level
Fulbright Fellowship United States India Educational Foundation International
Teaching Experience (Outside Institution)
Designation Institute Duration
Assistant Professor Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, (Government Sponsored Degree College affiliated to Vidyasagar University), West Bengal 09-07-2003 To 16-03-2009 (5 years, 8 months, 7 days)
Associate Professor Pondicherry University 15-07-2016 To 14-07-2019 (2 years, 11 months, 29 days)
Professor Pondicherry University 15-07-2019 To 21-02-2023 (3 years, 7 months, 6 days)
Assistant Professor West Bengal state University, Kolkata 17-03-2009 To 16-09-2010 (1 years, 5 months, 30 days)
Assistant Professor Pondicherry University 17-09-2010 To 14-07-2016 (5 years, 9 months, 27 days)
Administrative Experience (Within Institution)
Designation Duration
Professor 01-07-2023 To 31-12-2023 (5 months, 30 days)
Warden Presently Working since 01-01-2024 (10 months, 20 days)
Courses/Subjects Taught
Teaching Activity Type Course Title Semester Total Assigned Classes Number of Classes Taught Duration
Lecture Disability Studies and Literary Representations 2 4 56 14-06-2023 To 31-08-2023 (2 months, 17 days)
Collaborative Activities
Title of Collaboration Name of Collaborative Agency Year Of Collaboration Duration (in months)
“The Literature of Resistance: A comparative study of Dalit and anti-Apartheid Literature” Indian council of Social science Research, India and The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, South Africa 2017 24
Indian-European entanglements: exploring trans-cultural relationships through Digital Humanities Ministry of Education, Govt of India 2023 24
“The Guru Challenge: Spirituality, Psychology and literature in East-West Encounters” Indian council of Social science Research, India and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany 2014 24
“Digital Humanities in the Indian Rim” Ministry of Education, Govt of India 2019 24
Professional Body Associations
Professional Agency Name Name of Activity Year of Association
Comparative Literature association of India Membership 2018
Research Supervision Overview
PhD Scholars Supervised PhD Degrees Awarded Theses Submitted
1 7 1
Research Projects
Project Title Project Type Year Of Sanction Outcome/Output Duration
“Indian-European entanglements: exploring transcultural relationships through Digital Humanities”, Major 2023 YET TO BE Ongoing since 28-07-2023 (1 years, 3 months, 24 days)
Translating Marginality and writing Resistance: Reading Hungarian Roma narratives and Indian Dalit Literatures in Trans-cultural Context Major 2022 NA 01-08-2022 To 31-08-2023 (1 years, 30 days)
Indian Principal Investigator, Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) project on “Digital Humanities in the Indian Rim” with Western Sydney University, Australia 2019-2023 Major 2019 A series of Invited Talks, Conferences organised, Research Visits, An edited volume to be published 01-02-2019 To 31-03-2023 (4 years, 1 months, 30 days)
The Guru Challenge Spirituality, Psychology and Literature in East-West Encounters Major 2014 Monograph 19-02-2014 To 29-02-2016 (2 years, 10 days)
"The Literature of Resistance: A Conrparative Study of Dalit and Anti-Apartheid Literature Major 2016 Journal Volume 25-01-2016 To 30-01-2018 (2 years, 5 days)
“Mapping the intellectual history of Ideas: The Place of Bhima Bhoi and Mahima Dharma in Indian social and religious Tradition” Major 2024 Ongoing since 01-03-2024 (8 months, 20 days)
Honors and Awards
Name of the Award Awarding Body Award Category Level Award Date
Bilateral State scholarship Tempus Public Foundation of Government of Hungar Research International 18-06-2021
Bilateral State scholarship Tempus Public Foundation of Government of Hungar Research International 30-05-2022
ICSSR, New Delhi ICSSR, New Delhi Extension National 31-08-2023
Foreign Translations
Published As Title Authorship Published Date
Book ‘Notun Prithibi Amit Chaudhuri 23-12-2021
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